A chickpea leaps almost over the rim of the pot
where it is being boiled.
'Why are you doing this to me?'
The cook knocks him down with the ladle.
'Don't you try to jump out.
You think I'm torturing you.
I'm giving you flavour,
so you can mix with spice and rice
and be the vitality of a human being.
Remember when you drank rain in the garden.
That was for this'
First grace. Sexual pleasure,
then a boiling new life begins.
Eventually the chickpea
with say to the cook,
'Boil me some more.
Hit me with the skimming spoon.
I can't do this by myself.
I'm life an elephant that dreams of gardens
in Hindustan and doesn't pay attention
to his driver. You're my cook, my driver,
my way into existence. I love your cooking.'
'Once was like you
fresh from the ground. In time I boiled,
and boiled in body, two fierce boilings.
My animal should, grew powerful.
Controlled it with practice,
and boiled and boiled some more,
once beyond that.
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